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Alexander, J. E. [James] Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits To The Most Interesting Scenes In North and South America, and the West Indies. with Notes on Negro Slavery and Canadian Emigration. In Two Volumes. Vol. II (Only).
London Richard Bentley 1833 First Edition Hardcover Front board detached, spine incomplete, offsetting from the etchings, else sound and clean internally.
8vo; xiii, [3], 320 pages; Contemporary 3/4 leather, marbled boards, frontispiece and three other etchings. ** Howes A-117. The author was a Captain in the 42d Royal Highlanders. This volume starts with him as a passenger in the Aurora bound for New Orleans , up the Mississippi to Memphis, by Wagon to Nashville, by stage to Louisville and Cincinnati, then to Niagara, Quebec City, New York City, Chesapeak & Delaware Canal, Chesapeak & Ohio Railroad, and Washington. Chapter XII is his visit to the military academy at West Point with details of the military experience. **The etchings are: Squatter Mississippi, Making a Portage, A Canadian Residence, & Capitol, Washington.
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250.00 USD
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